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 Hi
I am using XSL 2.0 (Saxon 8) to generate HTML files from XML data and have
problems with a <footnote> node type.
Before I detail the problems, here's the data model. The XML may contain
<footnote> nodes almost anywhere, and the HTML output which I am generating
needs to substitute some sort of flag "in-place" and include the footnote
content at the end of the high-level element which contains it. Some
footnotes are more local than others, and this is specified by an optional
'level' attribute on the footnote element.
Thus:
----
<document>
<section>
...
<table>
...<footnote level="table">...</footnote>...
</table>
...
<footnote level="document">...</footnote>
...
<footnote>...</footnote>
...
<footnote>...</footnote>
</section>
</document>
----
The 'level' attribute may be "document", "section", "table" or couple of
other high-level elements (and the DTD I am using ensures a default of
"section").
My XSL currently generates output in the right locations, but I can't get
precisely what I want.
The critical parts of the XSL:
----
<xsl:template match="/document">
<html>
<head>
<title><xsl:value-of select="@title" /></title>
</head>
<body>
<h1><xsl:value-of select="@title" /></h1>
<xsl:apply-templates select="section" />
<xsl:call-template name="local_footnotes" />
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="section">
<xsl:variable name="depth" as="xs:integer">
<xsl:value-of select="count(ancestor::section)+1" />
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:element name="h{$depth}">
<xsl:value-of select="@title" />
</xsl:element>
<xsl:apply-templates />
<xsl:call-template name="local_footnotes" />
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="local_footnotes">
<xsl:variable name="local" as="xs:string" select="name(.)" />
<xsl:if test="descendant::footnote[@level=$local]">
<xsl:apply-templates
select="descendant::footnote[@level=$local]" mode="footnote"/>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="footnote">
<sup><xsl:number></sup> <!-- LINE 1 -->
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="footnote" mode="footnote">
<p>
<xsl:apply-templates select="." /> <!-- LINE 2 -->
<xsl:apply-templates />
</p>
</xsl:template>
----
The line marked "LINE 1" is far too naive for my purposes; as it currently
stands most of the footnote numbers are duplicates because the numbering
restarts with every new parent element. However we'll return to this
expression later.
*My first problem*:
while I can generate a footnote number in-place with this template, the
attempt (at LINE 2) to repeat that number immediately before the footnote
proper is output fails with a stack overflow. I can't figure out what I am
doing wrong here (and when I searched the list archives for any ideas I saw
exactly this technique being used). So I'm stuck where to go next.
*Secondly*:
actually I want footnotes numbered (and formatted) differently in their
separate local sequences within document, section and table contexts. I
can't see that any suitable incantation for <xsl:number> exists to achieve
this in a single template, but I thought that if I cloned the footnote
template for each sequence then I might be able to do it, viz:
----
<xsl:template match="footnote[@level='document']">
<sup><xsl:number from="document" format="1"></sup>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="footnote[@level='section']">
<sup><xsl:number from="section" format="a"></sup>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="footnote[@level='table']">
<sup><xsl:number from="table" format="i"></sup>
</xsl:template>
----
This doesn't do the job, because the numbering still follows where the
footnote is, not whichever of my "high" levels the footnote belongs to. Next
I tried narrowing the count down, like so:
----
<xsl:template match="footnote[@level='document']">
<sup><xsl:number count="footnote[@level='document']" from="document"
format="1"></sup>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="footnote[@level='section']">
<sup><xsl:number count="footnote[@level='section']" from="section"
format="a"></sup>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="footnote[@level='table']">
<sup><xsl:number count="footnote[@level='table']" from="table"
format="i"></sup>
</xsl:template>
----
This changes some of the numbers but they are still wrong (and if anything
they are *more* wrong!)
Can somebody please help put me back on the right track here?
Cheers
Trevor
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